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Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Tanay Kumar Saha , Thomas Williams , Mohammad Al Hasan , Shafiq Joty , Nicholas K. Varberg

We investigate the problems and challenges of evaluating the robustness of Differential Equation-based (DE) networks against synthetic distribution shifts. We propose a novel and simple accuracy metric which can be used to evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Martin Gonzalez , Hatem Hajri , Loic Cantat , Mihaly Petreczky

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

The problem of identifying geometric structure in data is a cornerstone of (unsupervised) learning. As a result, Geometric Representation Learning has been widely applied across scientific and engineering domains. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Imran Nasim , Melanie Weber

Robust machine learning formulations have emerged to address the prevalent vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial examples. Our work draws the connection between optimal robust learning and the privacy-utility tradeoff…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ye Wang , Shuchin Aeron , Adnan Siraj Rakin , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Pierre Moulin

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results across many language processing tasks, however these methods are highly sensitive to noise and adversarial attacks. We present a regularization based method for limiting network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yitong Li , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin

It has been reported that deep learning models are extremely vulnerable to small but intentionally chosen perturbations of its input. In particular, a deep network, despite its near-optimal accuracy on the clean images, often mis-classifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 A. Tuan Nguyen , Ser Nam Lim , Philip Torr

The study of provable adversarial robustness has mostly been limited to classification tasks and models with one-dimensional real-valued outputs. We extend the scope of certifiable robustness to problems with more general and structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Aounon Kumar , Tom Goldstein

For sensitive problems, such as medical imaging or fraud detection, Neural Network (NN) adoption has been slow due to concerns about their reliability, leading to a number of algorithms for explaining their decisions. NNs have also been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Walt Woods , Jack Chen , Christof Teuscher

Robustness certification against bounded input noise or adversarial perturbations is increasingly important for deployment recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in safety-critical control applications. To address this challenge, we present…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Paul Hamelbeck , Johannes Schiffer

Despite extraordinary progress, current machine learning systems have been shown to be brittle against adversarial examples: seemingly innocuous but carefully crafted perturbations of test examples that cause machine learning predictors to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Omar Montasser

We prove that for a broad class of permutation-equivariant learning rules (including SGD, Adam, and others), the training process induces a bi-Lipschitz mapping between neurons and strongly constrains the topology of the neuron distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Yongyi Yang , Tomaso Poggio , Isaac Chuang , Liu Ziyin

The existence of adversarial data examples has drawn significant attention in the deep-learning community; such data are seemingly minimally perturbed relative to the original data, but lead to very different outputs from a deep-learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Wenlin Wang , Lawrence Carin

The spiking activity of principal cells in mammalian hippocampus encodes an internalized neuronal representation of the ambient space---a cognitive map. Once learned, such a map enables the animal to navigate a given environment for a long…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-10 Andrey Babichev , Dmitriy Morozov , Yuri Dabaghian

Many applications require the robustness, or ideally the invariance, of a neural network to certain transformations of input data. Most commonly, this requirement is addressed by either augmenting the training data, using adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Jonas Geiping , Zorah Lähner , Adam Czapliński , Michael Moeller

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently been demonstrated to perform well on a variety of network-based tasks such as decentralized control and resource allocation, and provide computationally efficient methods for these tasks which have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Raghu Arghal , Eric Lei , Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti

Neural networks are getting better accuracy with higher energy and computational cost. After quantization, the cost can be greatly saved, and the quantized models are more hardware friendly with acceptable accuracy loss. On the other hand,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Chang Song , Riya Ranjan , Hai Li

Certified robustness in machine learning has primarily focused on adversarial perturbations of the input with a fixed attack budget for each point in the data distribution. In this work, we present provable robustness guarantees on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Aounon Kumar , Alexander Levine , Tom Goldstein , Soheil Feizi

It is well-known that standard neural networks, even with a high classification accuracy, are vulnerable to small $\ell_\infty$-norm bounded adversarial perturbations. Although many attempts have been made, most previous works either can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bohang Zhang , Tianle Cai , Zhou Lu , Di He , Liwei Wang

This article aims to study the topological invariant properties encoded in node graph representational embeddings by utilizing tools available in persistent homology. Specifically, given a node embedding representation algorithm, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Mustafa Hajij , Ghada Zamzmi , Xuanting Cai